[plug] Floppy access after Edgy>Feisty upgrade

[Adam Hewitt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Patrick Coleman
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:35 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Floppy access after Edgy>Feisty upgrade
> 
> On 5/6/07, David Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > It appears that my floppy drive is not automatically mounted when a
> disk
> > is inserted.
> >
> > Access via Places>Computer>Floppy drive    returns a momentary window
> > with the message 'Opening floppy drive' and then opens the root
> > directory in Nautilus. >media>floppy or floppy0 then displays the
> floppy
> > files and floppy icon appears on the Desktop. Floppy mounted and now
> > accessible.
> 
> Hmm, looks like my system does it too.
> 
> After a bit of searching, it appears to be a reported bug with Ubuntu.
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/66869.
> Priority is low and it was reported late 2006, so it may not get fixed
> any time soon.
> 
> Changing your fstab entry from noauto to auto will only result in the
> system trying to mount the floppy every time it boots - the
> noauto/auto flags control what gets mounted when the command 'mount
> -a' is run. As this command is run in the boot scripts, the
> auto/noauto flags are typically used to control what gets mounted
> automatically at boot time.
> 
> In short, all you can really do is work around it and wait for a fix
> (or, of course, delve deep into the GNOME/nautilus subsystems to find
> the culprit and be the savior of floppy-drive-using people everywhere
> :).
> 
> However, you can write a quick shell script that emulates the correct
> behaviour:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mount /media/floppy
> nautilus /media/floppy
> 
> Copy the above three lines into a file on your Desktop called
> openfloppy.sh (make sure the #! line is at the very start of the
> file), then in a terminal run 'chmod +x ~/Desktop/openfloppy.sh'
> (without quotes).
> 
> Once you've done that, you can open the file on your desktop, choose
> 'Run' and you'll get your floppy displayed. You can unmount the floppy
> in the usual way (right-click on the floppy icon that appears and
> choose 'Unmount Volume').
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -Patrick
> 

I haven't used Ubuntu in a while but from my understanding /etc/fstab has
nothing to do with automounting. The software that does any automounting is
automountd or amutils. Have a look and see if either of these are installed.

Adam.